Stephen Skelton has been involved with growing vines and making wine since 1975. He is the English and Welsh vineyards contributor to Hugh Johnson’s and Oz Clarke’s annual wine guide and wrote the sections on English and Welsh wine in the 7th edition of World Atlas of Wine and the 4th edition of Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine. Stephen was a director of the English Vineyards Association and of its successor organisation, the United Kingdom Vineyards Association, from 1982 to 2003.